So you write a kick-ass article and publish it on a reputable blog. Surely, a post on [insert famous blog here] would send an avalanche of new visitors/subscribers/leads your way. Except that it doesn’t. What went wrong?

Live blogging is equal parts exhilarating, nerve wracking and pressure filled. You need to think fast and use both sides of your brain as you soak in and spit out information at the same time. I imagine that a live blogger probably looks very similar to cookie monster to other conference goers as you pound away furiously at your computer and snap countless photos of the speaker.

As someone who is on both sides of guest posting, requester and requestee, I’ve seen my fair share of great guest post requests and I’ve seen some truly awful ones. The truly appalling requests get thrown out right away. Identifying these types of posts is pretty easy, so easy that I can scan through an email and usually label it trash within a few seconds. Here are six things to avoid when sending out guest posts requests if you don't want your request landing in the trash:

This is a section from the Page One Power Employee Handbook, with minor edits. In the spirit of TAGFEE we thought it'd be fun and (hopefully) helpful to share some of the information and best practices we use internally. Hope you enjoy!

It's no fun coming up with blog ideas in those boring industries outside of SEO and marketing. You know what I mean, the 'real' world of forklifts, car dealerships, garden furniture and bedding. Even when coming up with new content for your own blog, in your own specialty niche, sometimes it can be a bit tough.

Guest blogging can be one of the most daunting tasks for both professionals and casual bloggers, alike. You are faced with this unfathomably large sea of information and you are trying to find someone who will accept your little guest post on how to make tastier sugar cookies (or whatever). It certainly isn’t easy, and it’s going to take a lot of leg work before you start posting material that will generate a following for your own blog. The best thing that you can do – and sometimes, the only thing that you can do – is to try and impress a reputable blog to start building your own credibility as a writer.

Health and wellness are popular topics in this day and age, especially because obesity is getting more and more widespread. You are interested in the topic or you have an experience you want to share, and you consider blogging the best way to express yourself. It might be so, but before starting you need to consider all the relevant aspects of health blogging and blogging in general in order to be able to decide whether you can do it and whether it is worth the effort you want and need to put into it.

In short, we needed to find a way to break into the jam packed real estate blog realm and find a unique voice that would help us stand out. When we first started we averaged 3,000 visitors a month. Less than seven months later, our growing real estate blog receives between 30,000 and 70,000 visitors a month.

Google claims that content is king. Contextual links are more valuable than links in footer, sidebar, or template. Consequently, you need editorial links, or links within the main body of the page. The question is – HOW do you get other site owners to publish a contextual link? The answer is simple. Guest Blogging.

I have a confession to make. I hate patents as I simply do not understand them and probably never will. Maybe it’s the lingo or maybe it’s the plain formatting or maybe it’s the unbelievably complicated language and words that are used to describe the simplest of statements or even worse, it is written in a language which is not English and I have not yet realized it.

I wrote a YouMoz Post two years ago titled "Case Study - How To Beat Google and Rank #2 for Viagra" and have been meaning to write a follow-up to that post. After doing some research online, I found another fantastic example of how to continue to beat Google...

The Hacking Attack
My blog got hacked and injected with a folder containing 645 pages, all full of auto-generated content, loaded onto plagiarized templates and linking to about 1700 different websites - making it difficult to discern which are the spammers' own and which are legit. I asked about crawling these pages in the Pro Q&am...

Recently, the largest Latin America travel website, Decolar.com (also known as Despegar) has just been from Google results due to Webmaster Guidelines violation, resulting in a big buzz in the Brazilian SEO community.
The first tweet about the case was from Flavio Raimundo, pointing to the site:decolar.com Google Results page: